On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, [iso-8859-1] Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote:
> Em Sat, 05 Jul 2003 18:36:51 +0800, debia escreveu:
> > As for Compaq killing Alpha and PA-RISC, that was driven by its
> > perception of how best to make a dollar. NT 4 was available for
> > IA32, Alpha, PPC and HP-RISC.
>
> There was never MS WNT for the PA-RISC. There was for SPARC,
> but never saw the light of the day. Likewise Solaris for the PowerPC
Are you sure you didn't mean MIPS? NT/SPARC would be the only port of a Windows
variant to a big endian platform...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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